Support older versions of macOS

[ok-coder1]

Does it work with older versions of macOS?

I am using macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

The latest version does not work.

[theRookieCoder]

Can you describe what you mean by "it doesn't work".

[ok-coder1]

Ferium v4.7.0 on macOS 10.12.6:
dyld: cannot load 'ferium' (load command 0x80000034 is unknown)

[theRookieCoder]

This will require some changes in the build action. For now, you can compile it from source to make it work.

[ok-coder1]

Compiling from source is hard and slow. What is the approximate ETA for this to get fixed?

[ok-coder1]

There's no PR open yet. @theRookieCoder, is this fixed?

[theRookieCoder]

Please be patient @ok-coder1. I'm a final year high school student who's quite busy with academics, I have exams going on at the moment too. I might not be able to get a fix this weekend either.

Compiling from source is hard

It's not that hard with Rust, just run curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh to install the toolchain, then run cargo install ferium to download the source code and install the program. Sure it's not that fast, but it should get you up and running <30 mins.

[ok-coder1]

I'm a final year high school student who's quite busy with academics, I have exams going on at the moment too.

Oh, sorry.

[ok-coder1]

It's not that hard with Rust, just run curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Well running curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh spat out this error: curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to sh.rustup.rs:-9836.

[ok-coder1]

It's not that hard with Rust, just run curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Well running curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh spat out this error: curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to sh.rustup.rs:-9836.

[ok-coder1]

It's not that hard with Rust, just run curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh to install the toolchain, then run cargo install ferium to download the source code and install the program. Sure it's not that fast, but it should get you up and running <30 mins.

Crate ring@0.17.8 does not build as it needs macOS 10.13, but I have macOS 10.12.6.

[ok-coder1]

It's been more than 2 months, any update?

[Nekkowe]

Your best bet is switching to an operating system that's still being actively maintained.
Sierra is not receiving security patches anymore (as of December 2019). It's not safe to use.

macOS Sierra is over seven years out of date, and macOS in general is a pain to develop for at the best of times. Only a vanishingly small number of people still use Sierra and would benefit from the work required to get ferium running on it. And if a depencency (like ring, apparently) is dependent on a later version of macOS, it could take a lot of time and effort to get & keep ferium working on your version of mac.

You might be out of luck here. This is just my personal opinion, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect someone else to invest time into getting this working on Sierra for - in all likelihood - just you alone.

I don't know your situation, but it looks to me like you should absolutely either switch to an up-to-date version of macOS, or move to a different operating system altogether.

[ok-coder1]

switch to an up-to-date version of macOS

The latest I can upgrade to officially is 10.13, which has also reached is end-of-life.

move to a different operating system altogether

I could, but that's not possible. (Boot Camp is only for Windows 7/8 on my macOS, and anyways I don't have enough storage space for it)

Using Virtual Machines might be possible, but the frame rate will be around 2 FPS.